Free Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India by Joseph Lelyveld Page A

half again larger—about 170 million—only about3 million Hindus remain. India’s Muslim population of 140 million—out of a total of 1.2 billion—is exceeded by those of only Indonesia and Pakistan.
    45    “
That’s due to lack
”: Interview with Abdue Wahab, Joyag, Bangladesh, Oct. 2009. The chairman of the local Jamaat was not necessarily expressing a heretical view in speaking well of Gandhi. Faisal Devji notes that the movement’s founder, Abul Ala Mawdudi, “sang the Mahatma’s praises.” Devji,
Terrorist in Search of Humanity
, p. 133.
    46    
According to Narayan Desai
: Narayan Desai,
My Life Is My Message
, vol. 4,
Svarpan
, p. 271;
CWMG
, vol. 86, p. 162.
    47    “
My unfitness for the task
”: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 1, p. 431.
    48    “
I can see there is some
”: Ibid., p. 470.
    49    
The telegram to her father
:
CWMG
, vol. 86, p. 215.
    50    “
Manu’s place can be nowhere
”: Narayan Desai,
My Life Is My Message
, vol. 4,
Svarpan
, p. 303.
    51    
It soon became obvious
: Nirmal Kumar Bose,
My Days with Gandhi
, pp. 73–75.
    52    
A perfect brahmachari
: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 1, p. 591.
    53    
None of this would go on
: Gandhi’s yajna with Manubehn has been discussed in varying degrees of detail in Nirmal Kumar Bose,
My Days with Gandhi
; Narayan Desai,
My Life Is My Message
, vol. 4,
Svarpan;
Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 2; Mehta,
Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles
. It can also be followed in the correspondence in Gandhi’s
Collected Works
, especially vol. 86.
    54    “
I don’t want to return
”:
CWMG
, vol. 86, p. 224.
    55    “
Of course she knows her art
”: Ibid., vol. 96, p. 295.
    56    “
a deeply anguished
”: Nirmal Kumar Bose,
My Days with Gandhi
, pp. 95, 101.
    57    “
Stick to your word
”: Narayan Desai,
My Life Is My Message
, vol. 4,
Svarpan
, p. 304.
    58    “
I like your frankness
”: Nirmal Kumar Bose,
My Days with Gandhi
, p. 118.
    59    
Pyarelal was also drawn
:
CWMG
, vol. 85, p. 221.
    60    “
I can see that you will not
”: Ibid., vol. 94, p. 337.
    61    “
After a life of prolonged
”: Nirmal Kumar Bose,
My Days with Gandhi
, p. 135.
    62    
He’d read Havelock Ellis
: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 1, p. 588.
    63    “
What is Freudian philosophy?
”: Nirmal Kumar Bose,
My Days with Gandhi
, p. 158.
    64    
Bose’s basic point
: Ibid., pp. 150–51.
    65    “
I do hope you will acquit me
”: Ibid., p. 153.
    66    “
I saw your strength come back
”: Ibid., p. 161.
    67    
Given that the Congress
: Rajmohan Gandhi,
Gandhi
, p. 551.
    68    
According to one account
: Maksud,
Gandhi, Nehru, and Noakhali
, p. 41.
    69    “
I can never be disillusioned
”: Rajmohan Gandhi,
Gandhi
, p. 554.
    70    “
I feel a little out of my depth
”: Brown,
Nehru
, p. 169.
    71    “
Jawaharlal is the only man
”: Hingorani,
Gandhi on Nehru
, pp. 12–13.
    72    
his heir would never score high
: Gandhi and Nehru had exchanged letters laying out their differences in October and November 1945. See Nehru,
Bunch of Old Letters
, pp. 509–16. Also see Tendulkar,
Mahatma
, vol. 8, pp. 302–6.
    73    “
He says what is uppermost
”: Hingorani,
Gandhi on Nehru
, p. 12.
    74    “
He has made me captive
”: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 2, p. 251.
    75    “
My voice
”:
CWMG
, vol. 86, p. 295.
    76    
Basically, it said Gandhi
: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 2, p. 483.
    77    
When a member asked
: See
Amrita Bazar Patrika
, Jan. 6, 1946.
    78    “
I suggest frequent consultations
”: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 2, p. 482;
CWMG
, vol. 86, p. 286.
    79    “
Remember Bihar
”: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 1, p. 557.
    80    “
You don’t know the joy
”: Ibid., p. 509.
    81    “
It failed miserably
”: From